In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: (CNN) Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has frustrated legislators on both sides of the aisle with his refusal to talk specifics on several major issues he could rule on if he's confirmed. But one matter on which his past writings offer a detailed picture of his views is medical aid in dying, sometimes referred to as physician-assisted suicide. In 2006, Gorsuch wrote "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia," a 311-page book in which he "builds a nuanced, novel, and powerful moral and legal argument against legalization," the book proclaims on its back cover. Gorsuch also addressed questions on the polarizing issue during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings.Neil Gorsuch could be confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice this weekGorsuch authored the book "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" in 2006In 1997, Oregon became the first state to enact a physician-assisted suicide law 
 Question:"The Supreme Court recognized in Cruzan that there's a right in the common law to be free from assault and battery, effectively," _ said, "and assume that there was a constitutional dimension to that."

Answer: Neil Gorsuch


Question: (CNN) As House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the Republican health care bill from voting, I could almost hear the giant sigh of relief from Atlanta and across the nation's health care establishment. Hidden in the nooks and crannies of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was a provision to eliminate $1 billion in disease prevention funds from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Those cheers I imagine I hear right now in Atlanta are huzzahs from the CDC headquarters. According to the GOP plan, "Our Step-by-Step Approach," the first of three steps towards reshaping the American health care market was thwarted on Friday when the White House, recognizing that splits within the Republican Party could not be resolved to allow passage of the AHCA, instructed Ryan to pull the bill. Step two, led by Secretary Tom Price and his team at the Department of Health and Human Services, may still proceed: "going through every page of regulations and guidance related to the Affordable Care Act to determine whether or not they work for patients," with an eye to eliminating the rules laid out by the Obama administration.Laurie Garrett: The life expectancy of Americans is lower than those living in some third-world countriesThe GOP health care bill would have decreased it even more by cutting funding to life-saving preventative care, she writes 
 Question:In 1999 drug overdoses claimed the lives of 6.1 of every 100,000 _, and that soared to 16.3 per 100,000 in 2015.

Answer: American


Question: (CNN) -- A Tennessee juror's laudatory Facebook message to a medical examiner during a murder trial could nullify the jury's conviction of William Darelle Smith, the state's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The high court did not immediately throw out the first-degree murder conviction of Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2010. But in concluding the trial judge erred upon learning of the juror's social networking communication with a key prosecution witness, state justices unanimously decided a new trial may be necessary unless the state proves the juror shouldn't have been disqualified. "If, for any reason, the trial court is unable to conduct a full and fair hearing with regard to juror (Glenn Scott) Mitchell's improper extrajudicial communication with Dr. Lewis, then the trial court shall grant Mr. Smith a new trial," the Supreme Court ruled, referring to the juror by name, as well as Dr. Adele Lewis, the medical examiner who testified.William Darelle Smith went on trial in 2010 for first-degree murderA doctor who did the victim's autopsy testified, then was contacted by a jurorThe trial judge didn't order a hearing into that interaction; high court says he erredState Supreme Court orders such a hearing, which could lead to a new trial 
 Question:The trial court ruled against him, as did a state appeals court that characterized the _ communication as "mere interactions" and noted it is up to the court to decide if a juror is impartial.

Answer:
Facebook


